Sound Connoisseur Gifts

Charles has opted for the Harrison Birtwhistle ring-tone.

'I said, what time does his violin lesson finish?'

"The bad thing about putting a super-powered car speaker system on your bike...is the length of the extension cord."

"Should I set the sleep machine for Babbling Brook, Ocean Waves, or Lapping Toilet?"

Felix Mendelssohn

'I'm going to drag my sled up and down the sidewalk until the noise drives nature crazy and it snows.'

Baroque Peacock

Future garbage truck driver.

"I only like their bad albums – the good ones are too commercial."

Piano Recital

The Gettysburg Address in process.

"I'll stop when I'm good and ready to."

'... and the winner for 'The Noisiest Picture of the Year' is...'

My other cello is a Stradivari

Artist and Musician

'He likes a room where he can reverberate.'

Scarpia's Palace

'Incredibly Inexpensive Sound Engineers. Pretty Good Sound Engineers, 12 the price, 23 the quality. You'll hardly notice the occasional feedback.'

B.B. King

'Theaters from Hell' 'We have no sound engineers, so no there's not a good seat in the house.'

"Our kids may like your giant soundbar, but the neighbors seem to have a different opinion."

Jerry Brown.

'You haven't heard anything yet!'

'Don't forget to take your tranquilizers Daddy, little Jimmy is coming round to play.'

Wake the eff up with the official New York City alarm clock. Choose your distress signal: car horns, sirens, barking, heat pipes, mouse feet. Guaranteed to disturb!

Oblivious at 20,000 Feet

"Come up and purr in her other ear... she likes the surround sound."

"You know damn well what noise!"

'I told you we should have gone wireless.'

People bell ringing - 'RING TONES'

The sounds of a tree falling in the forest.

'The cannon will go off every 20 minutes just to make sure you're paying attention,'

Leaf-Blowers: Loudly making yardwork someone else's problem since the 1960s.

"Threatening to call the Noise Abatement Society isn't being very romantic, Sydney."

Library Grand Opening